RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP One of the three founding members of the Moscow Human Rights Committee, 1970 (Dr. Sakharov and Andrei Tverdokhlebov). Were given exit permits to give lectures in the United States but then not allowed back to Russia. He was an unlikely activist. Born in Moscow in 1921, Sakharov was

Alexander Ginzburg and the Resistance to Totalitarian Evil, Then and Now By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | August 6, 2002 Alexander Ginzburg, 65, a former leading Soviet dissident, died on July 19, 2002 in his adopted city of Paris. Ginzburg fought for human rights during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras and was frequently jailed for his

RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev born Nov. 14, 1925, Tbilisi, Georgia, U.S.S.R. [now in Georgia] Soviet biologist who became an important dissident historian in the second half of the 20th century. For a full exposition of the possibilities of behaviouralist psychiatry as means of social and political control we have

RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP On November 27th the well-known Russian dissident writer of the 1970s and 80s Vladimir Maksimov would have turned 70. A sad joke illustrates the gloomy atmosphere of those times: “Don’t think. If you think, don’t write. If you think and write, don’t sign. If you think, write and

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was becoming a dissident against the U.S.S.R. and the restricting communist government after he was arrested for the first time. He, through his entire life, was willing to sacrifice everything he had in order to point out that censorship was wrong and people should be able to speak their mind. ————— About his

RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP On September 7, 1976, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decreed that Victor Sokolov be deprived of his Soviet citizenship for “activities discrediting the rank (title) of a Soviet citizen.” Victor Sokolov is a dissident writer who has regularly published articles critical of the Soviet